Or your little elf in your phone/tablet (aka autocorrect) decides that no, that’s not the word you wanted even though you typed it and it changes it to an entirely different, unrelated, and not even closely spelled word.

OMG, yes! What’s even worse is trying to get my little elf (I saw a meme on FB calling autocorrect a little elf in your phone and I now call mine a little elf. Sometimes, he’s drunk I swear) to learn the spellings of my difficult character names (Like Shahryar and Scheherazade, both of which are a nod to 1001 Arabian Nights - aka where the story of Aladdin comes from.)

I so love when I’m only one letter off from what I intended and spellchecker has no idea what word I meant, so I have to Google it. I also love scientific words (or even long words in general): I spelled it correctly, you nut!

@Eeyore483 This reminds me of our hyper fairy that frequently farted from one place to another because your autocorrect couldn’t comprehend him darting.

I like to use British spellings for certain words. Small problem with that:
I’m American.
Spellcheck hates me.
So I shut off the squiggly lines. There’s no way you can convince me that “colour” is an incorrect spelling. Or “saviour.” Come on, now… lol.

I know it probably doesn’t count, but I tend to get the red lines when I try writing my characters’ names…especially in the fantasy story that I worked on for some time last year. Uh, yeah, no, MS Word, that is actually how those “words” are spelled, but thanks.

–oh, relatedly? voice to text woes! I can’t find my documentation of any of the more egregious whoopses I’ve encountered; synecdochic is here teaching her Dragon to swear which is not illustrating quite the same problem I’m thinking of (this is “built-in dictionary excludes profanity”, not “what on earth did I say to tell Dragon it should type that?”) but you will get the idea.

Actually unamused is technically not a word. Yet. It’s used so often I’m sure it will be added to the dictionary soon to become an “official word.” The grammatically correct way of saying it is not amused. Which is why spell check doesn’t like unamused.

in my sci-fi novel i had to argue with the computer over connectome. IT’S A THING DAMNIT. so’s epigenetics! and neurophysiology - but funny thing with that one. neurophysiology is incorrect BUT neurophysiology’s is fine. WHAT AND WHY WHY YOU DRUNK LIL SPELLCHECKER U